April 2009

Written by Bayle Emlein

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April 6, 2009

The meeting was called to order at 7:36 pm by President Chuck Horner. Jan distributed copies of MintLinux 6 to interested attendees. MintLinux can be run from the CD-ROM.

The Southwest Computer Conference will take place in San Diego May 29-31. For more information go to the PCC website or to www.theswcc.org.  All user group members and interested parties are invited to come.http://www.theswcc.org.

There will be a Clubhouse cookout tomorrow, the 1st Saturday of the month.

SIG Announcements:

See your email later in the month to learn what’s happening this month at the Spectacular Linux SIG

Bud Gallager is planning to start a Windows 7 SIG, in May or June. Send him an email if you’re interested in the SIG or want more information. He’s Budgall@comcast.net. Day and time for the SIG are still open, probably the second Saturday of the month.

Paul Cooper reported that the Smarter Computing SIG is doing well. This month, he is  planning to show Windows Live. They’ll also be looking at how to fix up digital photos. The Smarter Computing SIG meets the second Tuesday at Hayward Adult School Music Room (in the same building as the Main Meeting).

Chuck acknowledged the outstanding service both Elsie and Tom Smith have given to PCC and presented each with a plaque. Harold Smith also received a plaque acknowledging the many ways in which he supports PCC.

Presentations:

Jan Fagerholm and Verne Perry showed LinuxMint 6. Verne pointed out the GRUB Linux boot manager, which has a variety of options, including memory checking. LinuxMint is based on Ubuntu. The menus have a logical hierarchical structure. Web browsing on Linux is faster than Windows, since anti-malware software is not needed. The major problem with most Linux distributions is that they do not work out of the box with many multimedia applications. Verne reported that LinuxMint worked well with many multimedia tasks, though he has added a few codec’s.

MintLinux takes advantage of the hundreds of free Linux applications. Hover over an MP3 and it plays. Jan demonstrated how easy it is to access digital photos and move them to the desktop.

General Drawing

  • Adaptedlearning.com book bag:  Dan Peterson
  • Alameda County Developmental Disabilities Council bag: Verne Perr
  • Click-free transformer:  Bud Gallagher
  • Display-link graphics adapter:  Bob Sorensen
  • Ingress church-key:  Bob Orcutt
  • Intelligent Prism clock:  Bob Kiessling
  • PC World card case:  Chuck Horner
  • PCO Personal Candy Organizer:  Dan Peterson
  • Sony eco-bag:  Michael Wong
  • CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2009:  Dan Dolgin
  • Otterbox case:  Paul Cooper

Raffle Prize

Epson Stylus NX-400 photo printer:  Ruth Churchill
 
The meeting was adjourned at 9:25  pm. The next meeting will take place at the same location on May 1, 2009.


Respectfully submitted,
Bayle Emlein, Secretary

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